Originally posted by libbe Holy sh*t!!! These are extraordinary! Was this with a Series 1 105 macro, or one of the other neat vivitars? Did you use flash, what aperture etc was these shot taken with?
Thanks.
The lens is a 100mm f2.8 Vivitar macro made by Kiron. Apparently it is the one they based the Series 1 105mm macro on.
Here is a picture I took when I first received it, the lens came in a package of camera bits I got off Ebay which consisted of a zoom, a 28mm, a 50mm, a set of bellows, a Ricoh camera body and some filters (all for $150 delivered to Spain).
Shots were all handheld and around f5.6 + (you can see more by clicking on the picture and looking on the more properties on Flickr).
AF-360 flash was used.